PhotoArchiveNews.com Exclusive: Attention London based stock photo agencies, it’s time to brush up your customer service and contributor relationship activity – Fast growing photo agency Shutterstock has exclusively announced to us this afternoon the opening of their first international office in Farringdon, London. In a press release due out tomorrow…
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© Alex Hewitt/Writer Pictures Photographers from UK photo agency Writer Pictures are shooting at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival / 10 – 26 Aug. To request a daily feed of images or have a particular event or Author covered contact them on UK 0208 224 1564. Plus, great coverage…
Photo library Topfoto in the UK have uploaded 10,000 new images from the Liszt collection – ready for license. The Liszt collection’s roots lay in the Austria Hungary Empire where Gizella Schwarz (1877–1962), started to collect some ‘Liszt’ prints. These were portraits of Franz Liszt and woodcuts of the places…
UK based photo library the Mary Evans Picture Library is now representing the collection of Antiquarian Images. They say: ‘The library, comprising of thousands of fascinating pictures, spans the 15th to 19th century and encompasses a comprehensive range of subjects including flora and fauna, buildings, gardens, native people, military and…
PACA 2013 Conference – August 9th Deadline for discounted registration rates Latest speakers confirmed: Alex Goh, CEO of Imgembed will introduce his new technology and licensing platform. A legal session on “Patent Trolling” will alert attendees to a very dangerous precedence currently being tried in the courts. Uri Lavi of…
In 2011 the management at Rex Features bought the photo agency. Rex MD Larry Lawson who lead that buyout is pictured above about to distribute cake to the staff celebrating their second year running the agency …trust the celebrations ended with the traditional industry visit to a boozer to wash…
Amazon.com, Inc has announced the launch of Amazon Art , a marketplace that gives customers direct access to more than 40,000 works of fine art from over 150 galleries and dealers. At launch, Amazon Art will showcase artworks from more than 4,500 artists. The store is one of the largest…
It’s on HTC phones, looks like a new game where you – the paparazzi photographer – earn increasing amounts of money the closer you get a shot of your celebrity target…if you dither the celeb smashes your lens – ok! let us know if you give it a go –…
The Washington post reports Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos has bought the newspaper for $250 million in cash. Read his open letter to staff at the newspaper ….’There will, of course, be change at The Post over the coming years. That’s essential and would have happened with or…
PhotoArchiveNews.com exclusive Some good news to end the week on here from Mary Evans who this afternoon confirmed to PhotoArchiveNews.com they have purchased photo library Ardea one of the UK’s leading wildlife, pets and environment picture libraries. We understand Mary Evans bought the library in a cash deal – Adrea…
↑ click for the promo vid A Berlin based microstock photo agency dedicated to smartphone users launched this week called Instastock They say: ‘InstaStock is one of the very first photo databases, which sells authentic, up-to-date images of smartphone photographers.. Users can easily upload their best pictures via Instagram and…
A great partnership announced this week between image marketing software company Stipple and photo agency Getty Images. Stipple provides top publishers with interactive images that contain relevant and accurate multimedia content, including videos, product photos, “shop” buttons and much more. By leveraging Stipple’s technology on their website, publisher sales teams…
The PACA 2013 Conference Committee is excited to announce that Colleen Wainwright, a.k.a. “the communicatrix”, will set the stage for this year’s “Opportunity in Change” program. Known for her common sense approach to how to connect more effectively with the right people, her presentation will be full of a lively…
“Across the years of the war in Vietnam, the AP photographers saw more combat than any general,” Hamill writes in his introduction. “This book shows how good they were. As a young reporter, I had learned much from photographers about how to see, not merely look. From Vietnam, photographers taught…
The BBC reports: Pop singer Rihanna has won a legal battle with clothing retailer Topshop over a T-shirt bearing her image. The star sued Topshop’s parent company Arcadia for $5 million (£3.3m) over the T-shirts, which featured a photo taken during a video shoot in 2011. Here: bbc.co.uk It’s gotta…
Premium rights managed photo agency Gallery Stock has announced a partnership with Art and Commerce to represent photography from the Vogue Italia website – a collection called PhotoVogue. PhotoVogue, an initiative first launched by Vogue Italia two years ago, invites young and talented photographers to showcase their work on the…
Photo Archive News listed UK based photo library Garden World Images – GWI – are online with a selection of ‘how to Videos!’ View and license them here…
above: Richard last week at The University’s Graduation Ceremony at The Royal Festival Hall University of The Arts London have honoured UK people and personalities photographer Richard Young by giving him the title of Honorary Doctor and Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of photography.…